What type would you choose for the following "numbers?"
- A person's telephone number.
Answer: string.
- A person's height.
Answer: float or double.
- A person's age.
Answer: int for performance or byte (0 to 255) for size.
- A person's salary.
Answer: decimal.
- A book's ISBN.
Answer: string.
- A book's price.
Answer: decimal.
- A book's shipping weight.
Answer: float or double.
- A country's population.
Answer: uint (0 to about 4 billion).
- The number of stars in the universe.
Answer: ulong (0 to about 18 quadrillion) or System.Numerics.BigInteger (allows an arbitrarily large integer).
- The number of employees in each of the small or medium businesses in the UK (up to about 50,000 employees per business).
Answer: Since there are hundreds of thousands of small or medium businesses, we need to take...
